Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs Will Play Blu-ray 3D

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What is truly needed is a 3D standard so that manufactures aren't making so many competing products. Then would be the time to start adding 3D capabilities to IGP's. Maybe in another 2 years there will be a standard and prices can come down, till then I wouldn't drop a dime on 3D except for a 3DS or an actual movie at the theater.
 
Also, hey Sony from 1996, where's my virtual reality Playstation that you said would be arriving about now.
 
I remember one of the old AMD Executives saying at some point the CPU will use the integrated GPU as super inline math co processor. At that point of integration every process will see benefits. Guess what I'm getting at is were are we now? Better yet what steps are both AMD and Intel on and how many processor changes till we see that level of integration? I think of late AMD stated full integration with fusion around 2013.
 
Any naysayers out there regarding the 3D performance of the Sandy Bridge IGP might want to check out Anandtech's preview of the architecture.

In short the new IGP completely destroys anything else in the same bracket. Indeed, it's pretty much on par with low-end discrete solutions. Of course it's not unthinkable that AMD's Fusion IGP will be leaps and bounds better still but the new Intel IGP really is a significant improvement.

So there's no doubt it'll be able to handle 3D BlueRay content.

As for myself I'm none too impressed with 3D. Not because the very idea is bad but rather because it's still a future tech. As long as there are multiple competing standards and we require expensive custom hardware, inconvenient dongles in the form of glasses or similar and get worse picture quality, color saturation or viewing angles than what good old 2D offers it's not going to take off.
 
[citation][nom]peterkidd[/nom]I think that picture is from the porno Avatar. Is that on purpose?[/citation]


Wait....



How do you know?
 
I think that its great that Intel is adding new tech onto thier chips but... I hope that IGP is not the only thing they are focusing on.

IMHO it seems to me that IGP would be best suited as a mobile chip feature and maybe a desktop option not a complete chip design family.

Their are probably several other areas Intel could improve that could benifit consumers more than IGP, and that would more justifiable than amount of design effort that was used to creat IGP.
 
Sense when was intel sony's bitch?

It can run 3d buyray isn't that impressive either means lots of cpu or a dedicated chip like a gpu doing the work either way intel wont be optimizing the stuff for games more likely making me a sad panda.
 
Last year or so we saw Intel integrating memory controllers in CPU, Now its sort of integrating a GPU. Well I know its part of the game but hey Intel you will have to do something of your own other then copying AMD.
 
[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]Intel has been needing to step up its IGP efforts....AMD/ATI has been squashing them in that space....[/citation]
I think you missed the last benchmarks of the new IGP on sandy bridge where it outperformed a dedicated 5450 in most tasks and was nearly double the performance of a 4200 in most tasks.
 
Since the Core 5 processors with integrated graphics are built the same way the Pentium Pro was how did Intel reduce manufacturing costs? Or did they? With the Pentium Pro processor Intel couldn't test the L2 cache memory until AFTER the processor was fully built. Then they had to throw out the CPU if the cache memory was bad. Doesn't Intel have to go through a similar process to test the integrated graphics core on the Core 5 processors?

It sounds like the Sandy Bridge CPU's will cost substantially less to manufacturer.
 
It'll be interesting once reviews of Sandy Bridge's 3D Blu Ray capabilities come out. The initial run through of benches from Anand is very positive, though some features were disabled in their sample. If we can expect those as minimum levels of the final product then there'll finally be a good IGP for casual gamers as well as for the laptop sector. Only problem is the H67 chipset allows for only one PCIe x16 2.0 lane while the P67 chipset allows two but does not allow the IGP to work on it. That means the H67 will force you forego buying 2 lower-price discrete graphics cards later on if you wanted to and have to resort to a dual-GPU single board card. And the P67 wouldn't even allow the IGP to work in the first place.
 
[citation][nom]CrazeEAdrian[/nom]Am I the only person that can't wait for this 3D fad to completely fade out....[/citation]

3D is destroying the economy, increasing global warming, ruining relationships, causing childhood obesity, responsible for the tension in the Middle East and every other major problem in the world! We must band together and stop 3D good people of Earth!
 
Anandtech's test setup had following drivers

Intel 9.1.1.1015 (Intel)
AMD Catalyst 8.12

Is he insane?

The latest rivers are

Intel 9.1.2.1007 (Intel)
AMD Catalyst 10.8
 
Better not allow kids under 6 to view those sweet 3d images, else they will be wearing eye patches until they finish puberty. Or until they fall down the stairs..
 
[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]Intel has been needing to step up its IGP efforts....AMD/ATI has been squashing them in that space....[/citation]

Have you seen the Anandtech review of Sandy Bridge? Intel really jumped to the plate big time. Not only did they beat AMD/ATI and nVidias best IGP, they were nipping the heels of a HD5450 discrete GPU in terms of performance.

And the sad thing is that its not a final CPU, mobo and the Turbo for the CPU and GPU do not work. Add to that that it wasn't even the highest end IGP for SB.

Its not hard to see that, with that data, it can play Blu-Ray 3D with no problems at all.
 
There is a single reason to why I prefer Intel over nVidia or AMD, and it's called open source Linux drivers.

I really hate holding back my kernel version until the proprietary driver supports it.
 
Improvements to video decoding do not necessarily result in better gaming graphics performance (and I bet they will still suck at gaming graphics for a long time to come).
 
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